Improved clasp for mail-bags



UNITED-STATES PATENT to.

-LEANDER FOX, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVED CLASP FOR MAIL-BAGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,09 l dated September 18, 1866.

' a mail-bag. Fig. 2 shows how it is reversed on the pivot; and Fig. 3 is a side view, exhibiting the clasp, pivot, and mail-bag.

The nature ot' my invention consists in a cast-iron or metal clasp, with raised letters, operating on ajoint and pivot or swivel. so as to lhe reversed when the mail-bag is to be returned to its destination.

A represents a part ot' a mail-bag, pouch, or trunk to which the clasp B is attached hy a joint and rivet, O, with a screw-holt, D, eX- tending through the leather and fastened by a nut, E, and a small set or tightening screw, F. G is a wire eye, that is commonly used for holdingthe end of clasp by a lock.

The clasp is to be constructed of metal, both sides alike, and with raised letters on each side, the letters designating the places or post-offices from which and to which the mail is to he forwarded, the clasp being re versed upon its joint C and bolt or swivel D, and when locked or fastened the raised letters', that are permanent, show the names of the post-offices from whence sent and the place or office of delivery.

When one bag or pouch is worn out, the nut E is unscrewed and the clasp put onto another bag.

I am aware of clasps heilig constructed so as to contain the written or printed names ot' post-ofces, an d made to he reversed or changed hy operating1 on a link or staple attached to the mail-bag, but these I do not claim. Therefore What I cla-im as my invention, and desire to secure hy Letters Patent, is-

The adjustable metal clasp B, with permanent raised letters, operating on a joint, C, and

swivel I), as herein described, and for the purposes set forth.

LEANDER FOX.

Witnesses:

J. 'FRANKLIN REIGART, JOHN S. HoLLrNGsHEAD. 

